Thursday, 16 April 2009

Fascism goes green

In the run-up to elections, political parties always do everything they can to seem as all things to all men. However, the BNP's attempt to define itself as "Britain's only true Green Party" really does have to be seen to be believed.

Apparently, the Green Party is actually "a front for the far left of the Labour regime," despite their being an entirely separate party with an impressive record of activism and campaigning on green issues as well as a whole host of other subjects, and the BNP "is this nation’s only true Green party" and the only one with "policies that will actually save the environment."

Yes, you really did read that right.

The biggest threat to the environment now is not, it seems, man-made climate change which will lead to a global catastrophe and destroy 85% of the world's population in the next 20 years if nothing is done. No, there's something much worse that only the BNP can handle. The truth is that "overpopulation - whose primary driver is immigration, as revealed by the government’s own figures - is the cause of the destruction of our environment." Moreover, "independent environmental organisations believe that Britain’s population needs to be significantly reduced" and "our immigration policies will achieve this." Seriously.

The BNP's policy on other environmental problems is also "refreshingly different" because it will "develop renewable energy sources such as off-shore wind farms, wave, tidal and solar energy" as the Greens have pleged to do, "investigate the feasibility of cutting-edge, intrinsically-safe, fast-breeder nuclear stations" and "Develop alternative transport fuels such as bio-diesel and hydrogen" as the mainstream parties have pleged to do and every serious green organisation warnsagainst, "Invest in a high-speed, magnetic levitation, inter-city rail network" which has long been on the cards because of the environmental impact of cheap flights, and "Allow the building of a new privately-funded airport on reclaimed land in the Thames estuary to reduce the pressure on, and stop the constant expansion of, the South East’s airports" which essentially moves the expansion to another place rather than actually stopping it.

And, as a passing note, the BNP "accepts" that climate change "is a threat to Britain" (and, presumably, the rest of the planet as well) and offers the suggestion that "we should try to minimise the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants," as has already been advised a thousand times over, yet offered no actual suggestions as to how this might be done.